Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.7
Points
7.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
45280
Points per Word
0.000155
Page Count
194
Points per Page
0.036082
Description
Left an orphan after the flu epidemic in British East Africa in 1919, thirteen-year-old Rachel is tricked into assuming a deceased neighbor's identity to travel to England, when her dream is to return to Africa and rebuild her parents' mission hospital.